A False Sense of Security

I know I have written a post similar to this before, but it really hit me today how much I struggle with the need to feel secure.  I rely on things and people that God has blessed me with.  I don't think there is anything wrong with enjoying what God has given us, but when we stop and think about it, would losing something or someone affect our faith in the One who provides true security?

Hebrews 12: 26-29 says "At that time His voice shook the earth, but now He has promised, 'Yet once more I will shake not onlly the earth but also the heavens.'  This phrase, 'Yet once more,' indicates the removal of things that are shaken-that is, things that have been made-in order that the things that cannot be shaken may remain.  Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire."

God shakes things up in our lives to show us what is eternal and what isn't.  He wants to remind us that He is the only constant. 

James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

Malachi 3:6 "For I the Lord do not change..."

Our material posessions won't last, people will fail and disappoint us.  The only hope we have for finding true security is found in the arms of the One who "will never leave you nor forsake you."